Joshua Oppenheimer is an American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. <br /><br />Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, that centres on Indonesian death squad leaders who killed thousands of Communists in the 1960s, was recently awarded a BAFTA, and has been nominated for an Oscar for best documentary. <br /><br />Oppenheimer is a senior researcher at the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Genocide and Genre project. <br /><br />According to the documentary website, Oppenheimer had spent more than a decade with "militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination".<br /><br />He joins Empire to provide an in-depth look into the making of the film.
